fm1-polly
Polly: a QY70-style pocket arranger firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 (private)
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 73%)
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No Developing real-time music arranger firmware for embedded microcontrollers (M-VAVE FM-1) requires low-level embedded C/C++, reverse-engineering proprietary hardware peripherals, and handling deterministic real-time MIDI scheduling.
What it would actually take: To build custom firmware for an off-the-shelf Chinese MIDI hardware unit like M-VAVE, one must extract and reverse-engineer the existing firmware, map the microcontroller pinouts and peripheral registers (DAC, display, buttons, MIDI/BLE), and write real-time embedded C/C++ or Rust bare-metal code. It requires an oscilloscope/logic analyzer, embedded systems engineering skills, and strict timing constraints for MIDI and polyphonic sequencing.
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Attention rank: #1056 of 1388 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Felucca · github · 2026-10-02 · 269 upvotes · similarity 0.81
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- harbor · github · 2026-10-20 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- awesome-fm-1 · github · 2026-10-05 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- jangada · github · 2026-10-04 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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- fm1-polly
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- pocket arranger firmware for m-vave fm-1
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